Introducing the 2024 edition of the College of Communication and Fine Arts annual magazine, ‘VOICES.’ If you don’t know former JRSM professor Otis Sanford, then you’re in for a treat. Sanford recently retired from teaching – wrapping up a four-decade career that began at the newspaper in Jackson, MS and…
The University of Memphis College of Communication and Fine Arts invites you to enjoy the latest edition of its ‘Voices’ Magazine. Click here to read: https://rb.gy/9d9sw
By: Trent Shadid, The University of Memphis Magazine The University of Memphis prides itself on being an institution that encourages and cultivates special relationships that transcend the day-to-day requirements of pursuing a degree. In the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, the relationship between Nazira Wali and Dr. Kimberly Patterson…
By: Kristen Russell The UofM’s Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music is proud to welcome four new faculty members this year. Carlos Enrique Santelli will be the new Assistant Professor of Voice. He brings a level of vibrancy, experience and passion that will both challenge and prepare students for future…
Congratulations to Dr. Francis Cathlina, director of choral activities, for being a 2024 @recordingacademy Music Educator Award quarterfinalist. The award recognizes current educators who have made a significant and lasting contribution to music education and demonstrate a commitment to the broader cause of maintaining music education in schools.
By: Jake Lankford April 1. April Fool’s Day, but the warm, sunny and slightly breezy weather is fooling no one. It’s a perfect day for the inaugural Central to the Arts Festival. I arrive at the festival and my first stop is the ROAR’s table. Our job as hosts at…
Dr. Artina McCain, associate professor of piano, was recently profiled on a podcast produced by the BBC entitled ‘Sideways In the episode, host Mathew Syed focuses on musicians performing publicly through bouts of excruciating pain. Plus, he “explores the connection between the musician and their instrument and what happens when…
Memphis Symphony Orchestra and Opera Memphis, in collaboration with the University of Memphis Institute for Arts and Health, will host Music and the Mind, a panel on cognitive diseases related to aging featuring world-renowned soprano vocalist Renée Fleming. “To have someone as iconic as Renée Fleming not only performing in…
The UofM’s College of Communication and Fine Arts (CCFA) is full of innovative artists, scholars, educators, architects and communicators who are creatively shaping the future of our community and beyond. The latest edition of our CCFA publication — Voices — showcases these innovators and their remarkable accomplishments, programs and projects. In the Department of…
For incoming instructor of double bass Jonathan Colbert, the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music is the latest stop on a musical journey that has taken him around the world and back again. Colbert, a native of Atlanta, GA, comes to Memphis by way of Scandinavia, where he spent six…
